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The following article
has been adapted (with slight modifications)
from Register of African Mining, 2006 Issue. |
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Location: |
South
of Addis Ababa |
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Ownership:
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MIDROC GOLD MINE PLC
100% |
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Management
Office: |
Arega
Yirdaw, Chief Executive Officer, MIDROC Gold
Mine PLC, P. O. Box 2318, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Phone: (251 11) 372 8227, Fax: (251 11) 372
8227. |
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Geology:
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In the Adola greenstone
belt |
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Comment:
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MIDROC Gold acquired
the PLs in 2004 and converted them to ELs
in 2005. Adola-Legadembi license area covers
441 km2, adjacent to the existing 46 km2 exploration
that MIDROC already held. The project had
two advanced brown field targets, to be further
advanced to scoping and pre-feasibility status
in 2006. |
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Location: |
500 km
South of Addis Ababa |
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Ownership:
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GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA
2%; MIDROC GOLD MINE PLC 98% |
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Management
Office: |
Arega
Yirdaw, Chief Executive Officer, MIDROC Gold
Mine PLC, P. O. Box 2318, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Phone: (251 11) 372 8227, Fax: (251 11) 372
8227. |
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Geology:
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In the Adola greenstone
belt, the mine is on the ore-body which is
about 1,200m long and 50m wide and proven
a depth of 250m. There is extensive artisanal
mining in the Adola region around the mine.
The mineralization occurs in a N-S trending
steeply west dipping quartz vein system that
follows the structural contact between feldspathic
gneisses and the volcano-sedimentary sequence
of the Megado belt. Mineralization and intense
quartz veining is belt developed in graphite-rich
sedimentary units within 80m of this tectonic
contact. |
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Resources/
Reserves: |
MIDROC Gold acquired
the PLs in 2004 and converted them to ELs
in 2005. Adola-Legadembi license area covers
441 km2, adjacent to the existing 46 km2 exploration
that MIDROC already held. The project had
two advanced brown field targets, to be further
advanced to scoping and pre-feasibility status
in 2006. |
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Operation: |
Open Cut |
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Treatment: |
CIP |
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Plant
Capacity: |
1.5 mtpa |
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Production
History: |
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PERIOD
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AMOUNT |
COMMENT |
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31/12/2003 |
3,448
kg |
Gold
from 1,569Mt processed ore at 2.31 g/t |
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31/12/2004 |
3,606
kg |
Gold
from 1,659Mt processed ore at 2.34 g/t |
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31/12/2005 |
3,031
kg |
Gold
from 1,591Mt processed ore at 2.04 g/t |
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Comment: |
Comment: Legadembi
was the largest gold producer in Ethiopia. The mine
began operations in 1991. In March 1998 MIDROC Gold
purchased the 8.5 km2 ML and 80 km2 EL area from
the Ethiopian Government through the country's privatization
program. Major upgrading was completed by August
1998 and production began that month. In its first
year, production was about 90,000 oz gold. MIDROC
Gold invested heavily in the mine to enhance its
mining capacity. Since acquisition, MIDROC optimized
the open pit, increasing ore reserves by 62% and
gold by 37%. The company installed an additional
crushing circuit with the latest technology, doubling
the ore processing capacity. MIDROC also introduced
a bulk emulsion plant and a new tailing dam design.
Underground development of Legadembi deeper ore
resources was in progress in 2005 and 2006. Ore
mining was scheduled to start in 2007. |
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Location: |
North-West
Ethiopia |
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Ownership:
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MIDROC GOLD MINE PLC
100% |
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Management
Office: |
Arega
Yirdaw, Chief Executive Officer, MIDROC Gold
Mine PLC, P. O. Box 2318, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
Phone: (251 11) 372 8227, Fax: (251 11) 372
8227. |
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Comment:
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MIDROC Gold acquired
the PLs for the Metekel exploration project
in 2004 and converted them to ELs in 2005.
The Metekel exploration project covered about
1,964 km2 in the Metekel Zone of the Benishangul
Gumuz state. MIDROC identified various gold
targets on the project, three of which were
to be drill-tested in 2006. |
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